“The hard sphere,” declared the British physicist, Sir James Jeans, “has always a definite position in space; the electron apparently has not. A hard sphere takes up a very definite amount of room, an electron—well, it is probably as meaningless to discuss...
“Reading is first and foremost non-reading. Even in the case of the most passionate lifelong readers, the act of picking up and opening a book masks the countergesture that occurs at the same time: the involuntary act of not picking up and not opening all the...
My dad was obsessed with World War II (like many white guys his age). He was born in 1933. He could be sitting in front of the History Channel right now, drinking a tall boy, watching yet another documentary about the storming of Normandy. (In fact, I see...
‘What difference does it make,’said the dervish, ‘if there is good or evil? When His Highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he worry about whether or not the mice are comfortable on board?’ Voltaire, Candide I think I am the last person on earth to...
“Everything comes to us from others, even innocence.” Jean-Paul Sartre, from Saint Genet When my dad was drunk he used to drive down the freeway slowly, laughing at the honking. When my dad was drunk he would buy me oatmeal cookies and...
“What do you think I’d see if I could walk away from me?” Lou Reed,Candy Says Significant Facts: White, Female, North American, Upper Class, Skilled with pom-poms You? Facts I can’t change: White, Skilled with pom-poms Could move. Could grow poor. Don’t...
